Recently, while reading about one pathetic bootlicker’s attempt to create a new $250 bill featuring the hideous visage of Donald Trump, I found myself diverted toward more pleasant politics of the past. Specifically, our story today dates to around the Civil War, when the restriction barring the living from appearing on American currency was enacted. The reason for that prohibition is one Spencer Clark, the first superintendent of the National Currency Bureau.

In June 1864, the country was ready to produce its third round of fractional dollar notes. Congress decided it would honor William Clark, who famously explored the Louisiana Purchase with Meriwether Lewis between 1804 and 1806. But when Congress passed the bill to memorialize William Clark, the language of the bill only read “Clark.”

Given the opportunity presented, you may be able to guess what happened next.